September 1948
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Articles
Reader's Choice
The United States and China
The Midnight Gardener
Myself When Young
The Permanent Goethe
Washington
Sweden
Cameras on Hudson Bay
The son of a former Canadian lumberman, JOHN J. ROWLANDS took to the woods at an early age. rot six years he prospected for gold in upper Ontario and Quebec. After prospecting came newspaper work with the United Press, and then his present administrative duties at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recently when the old call to the northlands became irresistible, he joined forces with his friends Henry B. Kane and Fred Watriss, and together they headed for Hudson Bay. Out of their trips has come that vivid book, Cache Lake Country.
The Republican Revival
A lifelong Republican, OREN ROOT, JR., was active in support of Wendell Willkie’s candidacy for the Republican nomination in 1940, and after the nomination he became Chairman of Associated Willkie Clubs of America. On his return from five years’ service in the Navy, he resumed the practice of law and has again identified himself with the Republican Party as one of its most outspoken younger members. At the Atlantic’s invitation, he here presents his knowledgeable and hopeful survey of the Party and its Nominee.
Grand Tour--Nonstop!
Ohio born and bred, BERGEN EVANSis today Professor of English at Northwestern University and the author of that devastating and entertaining book, The Natural History of Nonsense. But when he was studying at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1930, Mr. Evans eked out his meager funds by serving during the summer months as a courier for a hit-and-run tourist agency which lacked the kindliness and experience of Cook or American Express but which certainly operated on the accepted American principle of the more speed the more service.
Orient Express
Her many years’ residence abroad in Hungary, on the Riviera, and in Paris have only served to accentuate ELEANOR PALFFY’S pleasure in and observation of her native New England. Out of the past with a blending of facts that are sometimes truer in disguise has come her new book, Largely Fiction, which is to be published in November by Houghton Mifflin and of which this is a chapter.
Report on the Sexless Behavior of Microscopic Immortals
Golfmanship: Or How to Win Without Actually Cheating
A writer now on the staff of the BBC, STEPHEN POTTERhas recently published what we regard as the shrewdest, funniest book on sportsmanship ever written — Gamesmanship: The Art of Winning Gaines Without Actually Cheating. It contains full details of winning procedures in tennis, golf, croquet, bridge, snooker, chess, and so forth. In this paper Mr. Potter has enlarged on his golfing philosophy, and in a subsequent series of articles he will discuss the Art of Intimidating the Experts, the thesis of his new book on Lifemanship.
CBS Views the Press
As every’ editor knows, the most difficult and sensitive assignment in journalism is to try to criticize the American press. Thus, when the Columbia Broadcasting System had the temerity to put on the air a program which would deliberately scrutinize the reporting and interpretation of New York’s leading newspapers and periodicals, fireworks were bound to follow. “CBS dews the Press” has now been on the air for a year: the pity is that its example has not been followed locally. The program is presented by DON HOLLENBECK, who has worked on newspapers in Omaha and San Francisco, and who served as a radio correspondent in Europe during the war.
Germany
Mr. Bluefrock Considers It All
Man Against Darkness
Philosopher and author who was horn in London, who received his B.A. and Litt.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, and who has been Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University since 1932, W. T. STACEcontributes a provocative paper to our series of essays on morality and religion — a series which has included the work of Rufus Jones, Barbara Ward, and Reinhold Niebuhr, and in which Mrs. Eugene Meyer will soon appear.
Date Before Dawn
The Island Greeks
A British artist and writer, OSBERT LANCASTER lived for eighteen months in Greece in a semiofficial capacity at the close of the war. Sketching and taking notes as he traveled, he has brought to his forthcoming book, Classical Landscape with Figures (Houghton Mifflin), of which this is a portion, a love of Greece and its inhabitants. His line drawings are as lively as his prose, as readers will know who have followed his cartoons in the English daily press, his contributions to many periodicals, and his books. Home Sweet Homes and Pillar to Post.
Night Without Stars
“I lived for the greater part of my life in a mining town of the soft coal section of Pennsylvania,”writes JAMES BINNEY, now a college instructor of English composition. “My father, my brother, and other relatives spent many years in the coal mines and,as a boy, I too worked in a mine, though that of course was some time ago.” Mr. Binney tells us that despite stale regulations and the vigilance of the best superintendents, accidents like this do occur, though with nothing like the incidence of fifty years ago.
Easy to Pack
September Sea
A Bostonian who has often matched his strength with the sea, WYMAN RICHARDSON,as his father before him, has found his heart’s desire in the remote and rustic Farm House at Eastham which gives him and his family quick access to the ocean, the Nauset Marsh, and one of the most beautiful beaches in all Cape Cod. Here Dr. Richardson retreats, to fish, to write, to hunt, or do nothing. This is the third of a series of articles on the moods of Cape Cod which Dr. Richardson is contributing to the Atlantic.
"I Personally" Awards
Laughter in the Next Room
As a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, Osbert Sitwell came unscathed through the heavy fighting in Flanders, and with the final victory in 1918 he, his sister Edith, and his younger brother Sacheverell turned to the arts with that sense of release and opportunity which the war had so long suppressed.
Atomic Energy
This Month
Witching Wands and Doodlebugs
A consultant in mining geophysics in Reno, Nevada, H. K. STEPHENSON, attended Mount Union College, got his Ph.D. from Princeton, and was engaged in a variety of scientific work for the Army in most of the war theaters.
Displeasure
RENE MACCOLL, Washington correspondent of the London Daily Express, is a frequent contributor to Accent on Living.
Shush!
Size
WARREN WEAER is Director of the Division of the Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Through the Films Darkly
JACK MASTERS left Sandhurst in 1934, served in India with the Prince of Wales s Own Gurkha Rifles, during the war was with General Wingate s Chindits in Burma, and was decorated with the D.S.O. and O.B.E. He retired from the Indian Army at the beginning of this year.
The Owlet and the Gamekeeper
Read to Me
The oldest of the famous tennis-playing Palfrey sisters of Boston, MARGARET PALFREY WOODROW has found, in reading to her child, that books for Younger Readers (known to the trade as ”juveniles”) are TOO often unnatural, uniform, and oversimplified. She quotes chapter and verse of the had ones and then goes on to give examples of the really good ones.
The James Revival
Essayist and critic, LEON EDEL was deep in his study of Henry James when the war called him, He served as a Technical Sergeant in the Third Mobile Broadcasting Company and later as a Press Control Officer in Germany. On his discharge in 1946 he retained to his editing of Henry James’s collected plays and his work on a definitive biography of the uovelist.
The Peripatetic Reviewer
